Microwave Chocolate Mug Cake

Here is a simple recipe for chocolate mug cake. There has been a lot of it circulating online so I thought I might give it a try and actually liked one of it so far.

What you need:

3 tbsp flour
4 tbsp white sugar
2 tbsp cocoa
1 egg
3 tbsp milk
3 tbsp oil

Mix all the dry ingredients first and then continually add the wet ingredients. Mix well and microwave for 3 minutes.

You can drizzle some chocolate syrup or top ice cream on it. I used chocolate ganache.
The chocolate ganache/icing consist of only 4ounces of semi-sweet or sweet chocolate and 1/2 cup heavy cream mixed in a bowl. Drizzle on the cake. ;)

Microwave Leche Flan

The skies might be gloomy and the streets of Waegwan is wet but my house if full of laughter, music and dancing because of Julia and Santiago. They keep encouraging me to show-off my belly while they did theirs. It was quite funny and all but I am nothing like those energizers. Being this pregnant makes me huff and puff easily as 1-2-3. The only way to cool myself down is probably make snacks for them. I want to make those easy-bake muffins or fruits or cookies but I am craving for a leche flan. I have no steamer and cooking time is a big hassle. So I was browsing online looking for some ideal leche flan microwave. A dear friend of mine (Thanks badai Katya!) gave me a link to making microwave brownie and from there I have seen microwave cake, cookies, ice cream (SERIOUSLY), macaroons and so on. No leche flan, my luck. The closest one I could get was the custard pudding. I am not a fan of pudding so I had to tweak the ingredients a little bit to get my leche flan successful.

Leche flan:                

3-4egg yolks

½ cup condensed milk

¼ cup evap milk or regular milk

1tbsp brown/white sugar

drops of vanilla extract

Caramel:

1tsp brown/white sugar

1tsp water

Easy steps:

Whisk the egg yolks.

Combine the egg-yolks, condensed milk, evap/milk, sugar and vanilla extract.

Caramelize the sugar with water on the microwave for 30secs on HIGH

Let it cool off.

Mix the ingredients well to avoid lumps.

Place on a microwavable container with water at the same line as the custard batter and cover with a plastic wrap.

Place your microwave settings on the lowest setting for 4mins.

Microwave again on medium settings for another 4-5mins

Open and let it cool.

Serve chilled, or NOT. 

You may flip it or eat it as is and if you feel that the caramel is too little then you could just microwave another set of caramel. EASY!! 

ENJOY! =)

God's Blessing

It has been quite a few months since I last wrote on this blog. Perhaps it was the weather (winter season really gets me cranky) or it might be the pregnancy. Yes, I have failed to inform you my cutie blog, I am indeed pregnant. 7 months and I’m already having a hard time moving around. I am having a baby girl. After so many discussions with my husband, Larry, we decided to name her Lira Karri Summers. Isn't it a cutie? Lira (lyre) for a Filipino name and Karri (pure) for German. She's been abusing my tummy so far but she's adorable. All while on my pregnancy I have been keeping myself busy by borrowing books/videos from the library, practiced my cooking, complain about cleaning the house and babysit 2 beautiful kids. Santiago and Julia keeps me sane living in this WIDE apartment. The house isn't furnished and for the mean time I don't have plans of doing so. We're buying baby stuff and believe we might be able to really do the interior in the future: when the baby doesn’t break figurines or knock on some furniture. Here is a series of ultrasound pictures from our OB. 

2 Months

3 Months

5 Months

6 Months

Here I am trying to strike a pose on my 7th Month. 

Will have another appointment next month April 2. Hoping the baby is growing well. :)